Method and system for a network device to obtain a trusted state representation of the state of the distributed ledger technology network
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsSanteri Paavolainen, Abu Shohel Ahmed
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Abstract
A method performed by a trusted network device and a network device for transmitting a trusted state representation of a state of a DLT network to one or more network devices is described. The trusted network device determines a state indicator. The state indicator is a representation of a state of the DLT network at a given time. The trusted network device transmits to one or more network devices a beacon message including the state indicator. The beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with the trusted network device. The state indicator is to be used by the one or more network devices as a trusted current state of the DLT network.
Claims17
A method performed by a trusted network device for transmitting a trusted representation of a state of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) network to one or more network devices, the method comprising:
- determining a state indicator, wherein the state indicator is a representation of a state of the DLT network at a given time;
- and
- transmitting to one or more network devices a beacon message including the state indicator, wherein the beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with the trusted network device;
- wherein generating the beacon message comprises including the state indicator in a transaction of the DLT network, wherein the transaction is signed based on the authentication information.
A trusted network device for transmitting a trusted representation of a state of a distributed ledge technology (DLT) network to one or more network devices, the trusted network device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a computer memory storing a set of computer readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the trusted network device to:
- determine a state indicator, wherein the state indicator is a representation of a state of the DLT network at a given time;
- and
- transmit to one or more network devices a beacon message including the state indicator, wherein the beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with the trusted network device;
- wherein the one or more processors cause the trusted network device to generate the beacon message by including the state indicator in a transaction of the DLT network, wherein the transaction is signed based on the authentication information.
A method performed by a network device, the method comprising:
- receiving a beacon message;
- determining that the beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with a trusted network device;
- and
- responsive to determining that the beacon message is signed based on the authentication information, setting a state indicator extracted from the beacon message as a current state of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) network for the network device, wherein the state indicator is a hash of a block header.
A network device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium storing a set of computer readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the network device to:
- receive a beacon message,
- determine that the beacon message is signed based on authentication information associated with a trusted network device, and
- responsive to determining that the beacon message is signed based on the authentication information, set a state indicator extracted from the beacon message as a current state of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) network for the network device, wherein the state indicator is a hash of a block header.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.